The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-27
AFTER MIDNIGHT
WHEN COUNCIL QUIr LAST MONT.
An Exciting Session to Which No Pen Can
Do Full Justice-The Annual Appropria.
tion Ordinance tho Cause Of n Good
Part OF the Lively Racket.

tion Ordinance the Cause Of a Good
Part of tho Lively Racket.
At 1915 o'clock this morning Council
adjourned after having been In session for
over four and one.hali hours. The meet.
ing was regular semi.monthly one, and
while an interesting time had been OK.
pected nothing was looked for such as
occurred. Aa usual, nearly all the excite.
ment and racket was confined to the
Second Branch chamber, and 1t was con.
tinual from the time the body was called
to order until alter an hours fllibusterinp
when the Branch adjourned; nothing like
1t has been known for long, long time,
and It Is saie to say that the WORKOUT
members 40 they went home heartily
wished that they might not be compelled
10 20 through another such experience.
At times the situation almost eclipsed
some OF the famous historical ones that
took place in the old "Ark" when the
well remembered "Great Commoner'
used to declaim against the movement to
establish the Board Of Public Works,
And Boardof Public Works was, In an
indirect way the cause Of the great and
most important fight that took place last
night. 1t was over that part OF the annual
appropriation ordinance appropriatinp
money TO the Board, that the factions
warred. 1t will be remembered that at
the last meeting the Second Branch passed
the ordinance as 1t was reported by the
Finance Committee, except that part or.
dering the Board to e1pend Its balance
after completing the unfinished work OF
lost year, equally among the wards was
stricken out and the expanding Of the
balsrce lett to the Boards discretion. Al
the same time the Second Branch rejected
a substitute offered by Mr.. Robertson or.
dering tho Board 10 first complete Last
years unfinished work, then make the
brick pavement continuous from iona.
thRn's run 10 Twenty.fourth street, ex.
cepting Main street hill, and to pave
Twenty.tourth street from Main to the
Chapline street pavement; it also proyi.
ded for two additional squares OF paving
on Eighteenth street in the Fourth ward
and it was this last provision that aroused
the ire OF the members at that tins and
caused the defeat OF the substitute.
Last night when President Gillilaud
called the Second Branch 10 order there
was only bare quorum Of the members
present, but before Clerk Bowers had fin.
ished reading the lengthy minutes, all had
appeared except. Messrs. Butts, Jones,
Maxwell, Miller and Young. The min.
utes had scarcely been approved before
Allison, Caldwell, Gsrvin and one or two
others were on their feet in the open space
in front OF the chair, all anxious for recog-
milton, and it was apparent thatsomethinp
WAS up. Mr.. Allison was recognized; he
moved to reconsider the vote by which
the appropriation ordinance had been
adopted at the last meeting. Col. Cald.
well raised the point OF order that the body
had no control over the ordinance, having
finished with it and sent it to the First
Branch. The Chair sustained this point,
aud ruled that unfinished business was
the only thing in order. Mr.. Allison
claimed that the ordinance came under
that head, and was again ruled out, He
moved q suspension OF the rules in order
10 consider the matter, but that motion
did not prevail aud other business was
proceeded with.
In the First Branch the ordinance was
taken up almost the first thing. On its
second reading for amendments MI,
Tracy moved to reduce the appropriation
made the Police Department by $3.50, that
being the amour. asked for, for patrol
wagon. Ills argument was that this was
but An entering wedge; that a horss
would have to be purchased and q man
the hired to drive Hsme; that police tee-
graph system would follow and that bio
expense would be piled up on the tax
payers for something the city had little
use for; he was sure that an arrangement
could be made with any livery stable in
town Tor $50 per annum to run wagon
as @ pstroi wagon whenever one was
needed, as expeditiouely as a regular
wagon could be run. Ths!e was a long
and. wearisome discussion over this, the
motion being defeated in ths end. Mr..
Tracy and MIR. McGregor were the only
ones who voted TO strike out. Mr., Fslis
wanted the appropriation Of 81 600 made
the Scale department raised 1900, but that
motion did not prevail.
Mr.. Myles introduced the Robertson
substitute as on amendment to
that part OF the ordinance appropriating
ior specific work part OF the Board OF
Public Works allowance, and leaving to
its discretion tho expenditure OF the
balance, aud alter a short, sharp debate
the amendment was adopted by vote OF
IN Ihnla VOTING q " nn1iNr,,.o
Dobb!ns, Farrell, Gavin, Haller, Handlan,
Konney and Myles. Those voting no
we're: Buchanan, Fnris, McGregor,
Schrebe, Schulize, Trscy and Ulrich. The
ordinance as amended was adopted BY
vote Of 10 TO 5.
The ness that the First had incorpora-
ted the Robertson substitute caused de-
cided iintter in the Second Branch,
At once there was hurrying to and
fro and active log rolling. About lO|
o'clock the amended ordinance rs returned
by the First WAS laid before the Second
Branch Tor concurrence and from that
time on until the Branch adjourned there
was the livsliest kind Of tune. During
the discussion that ensued the reason for
several members changing their views
about the Boards money being expended
at its discretion was brought out. It is
generally urderatood that Mr.. Olbert, OF
tho Board. is going. West and will
soon resign; further, that the Eighth
ward members, who are all Republicans,
are determined that his place shall be
filled by Mr.. Henry Schmulbach and to
this end they. and some other Republi.
cans who are in the scheme with them,
will league with certain South Side Dem.
ocrats and thus forming a majority ON
joint ballot put Mr.. Schmulbach in. As
Mr.. Schmubach has large Gnancia! inter.
ests in the Eighth ward, he is counted as
an Eighth warder, and that ward
has member on tho Board
in the person Of Mr. Hobbs. Those who
have changed their ideas and now vote |
for the Robertson substitute believe that
it ia preferable to Say where the Boards
money shall be spent, rather than leave IL |
to the discretion Of Board, a majority
Of which might hnvca warm sympathy Tor
their ward, especially as it is one with |
but fnw ma vntl atrootr